tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88608542107666654042024-03-12T07:02:17.382+00:00RTAINST<strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.comBlogger1004125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-76342439107074220982024-03-11T18:39:00.001+00:002024-03-11T18:39:44.390+00:00Thought for the month“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
― Nikola Tesla<strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-4700797616556696762024-01-07T21:49:00.006+00:002024-01-08T14:41:23.651+00:00Ending my 40 year career in scientific instrumentationRTA Instruments Ltd closed its doors at the end of 2023, after 20+ years of successful thin-film metrology sales working with k-Space Associates, Inc. and other principals in Europe.
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<div>News from k-Space 18 December 2023<div>
<div>"Richard Thomson, the founder of RTA, along with his colleagues, Dr Jeff Harris, Dr Carl Richardson, Dr John Grange and Dr Jeevan Dosanjh, were instrumental in helping grow k-Space’s thin-film metrology business across Europe. RTA’s sales skills and deep knowledge of thin-film deposition and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) led to their immense success. Their work helped establish the kSA 400, kSA BandiT, and the kSA MOS as industry standards".<div>
<div><a href="https://k-space.com/a-fond-farewell-to-our-long-time-european-sales-partner/"><b>Read more</b></a><div>
<strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-34842919770757830352022-03-15T09:59:00.003+00:002023-10-09T12:04:25.354+01:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Tahoma",sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”</p><p>Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) </p>
<strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-84157605526120101952021-12-02T18:03:00.005+00:002021-12-08T12:03:49.285+00:00Publish and be ...<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 10.5pt;">The publisher Springer
Nature has </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=adb99ca3c9&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">retracted</span></a><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 10.5pt;"> over 40 papers from its Arabian
Journal of Geosciences. One of the notices succinctly states: The
Editor-in-Chief and the Publisher have retracted this article because the
content of this article is nonsensical. Why would anyone doubt such
scholarly works as: “Simulation of sea surface temperature based on
non-sampling error and psychological intervention of music education”; or even
“Distribution of earthquake activity in mountain area based on embedded system
and physical fitness detection of basketball”?</span></span></div><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-16972891969673557102021-11-22T18:55:00.003+00:002021-11-22T18:58:42.256+00:00<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span face=""Tahoma",sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Men from Mars and Penguins from Venus?<br /></span></strong><span face=""Tahoma",sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Earlier
this year we had the saga of phosphine gas indicating life on Venus. Possibly,
perhaps and finally not even <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=f82719fc55&e=ef2665201c" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">there</span></a>. Now we have the
Daily Star, that doyen of scientific journals, <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=04fd2db5fd&e=ef2665201c" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">suggesting</span></a> that penguins
might be extra-terrestrials due to phosphine being detected in their guano.
Never mind phosphine, perhaps we have a surfeit of nitrous oxide.</span></div><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-55323311591345431312021-11-15T18:55:00.004+00:002021-11-22T18:57:53.201+00:00<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span face=""Tahoma",sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">North and South</span></strong><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 12pt;"> <br /></span><span face=""Tahoma",sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
Analysis of the <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=535becb845&e=ef2665201c" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">backgrounds</span></a> of over
1,000 authors involved in the 100 most cited climate change research papers
from 2016-2020 found that 90% of these scientists were affiliated with academic
institutions from North America, Europe or Australia. Fewer than 1% of the
authors were based in Africa, while only 12 of the papers had a female lead
researcher. The worry being that this lack of diversity creates blind spots to
the needs of some of the most vulnerable people to climate change.</span></div><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-80034656292365237862021-11-08T18:56:00.001+00:002021-11-22T18:57:26.740+00:00<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do conversations end when people want them to?<br /></span></strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
A Harvard <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=b8081a7aa9&e=ef2665201c" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">study</span></a> earlier this
year found conversations tend to go on for too long because people are too
polite to end them. Adam Mastroianni, who led the study, explained there
is generally a “coordination failure” about when to end conversations. “People
feel like it’s a social rupture to say, ‘I’m ready to go’… Because of that, we
are skilled at not broadcasting that information.”</span></div><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-18730034194098227052021-11-01T18:59:00.001+00:002021-11-22T19:00:29.785+00:00<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thought for the month<br /></span></strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit”.<br /></span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
Harry S. Truman, US President, Politician (1884-1972).</span></div><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-50482757495690619152021-10-20T13:24:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:24:43.469+01:00<p> <span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Van Eyck’s </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=8f3fbf2e97&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">eye</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-4062094463948827532021-10-18T13:23:00.000+01:002021-10-21T13:24:07.979+01:00<p> <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=770bae00fb&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Flat?</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-40114581752416353632021-10-15T13:23:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:23:45.631+01:00<p> <span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Laser </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=c6aa15de29&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">cooking</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-74649184120083887882021-10-13T13:23:00.000+01:002021-10-21T13:23:21.624+01:00<p> <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=4ba96f1d27&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Eggcellent</span></a><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> mathematics</span></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-45362663105443268342021-10-11T13:22:00.000+01:002021-10-21T13:22:57.233+01:00<p> <span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Brain </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=1a2f6e13eb&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">shrinkage</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-50284438434764313712021-10-08T13:22:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:22:27.262+01:00<p> <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=85b8e3a6a0&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Potty</span></a><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">?</span></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-21634081586704114672021-10-06T13:21:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:21:57.134+01:00<p> <span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Surprising </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=e76478332f&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">stuff</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-6225258697247546722021-10-04T13:19:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:21:26.069+01:00<p> <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=d243d30578&e=00b22ccdd3" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Paws</a><span style="text-align: center;"> for thought</span></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-86523551854077165542021-10-01T13:33:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:33:53.557+01:00<p> <strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thought for the month</span></strong></p><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to
understand more, so that we may fear less.”<br />
Maire Curie, Scientist (1867-1934).</span><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-33266293388227741092021-10-01T13:26:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:26:28.747+01:00<p> <span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Stellar </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=d37b2f3287&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">bullies</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-2220239277388935852021-09-29T13:26:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:27:14.810+01:00<p> <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=d2347c0ac4&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Metallic</span></a><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> water</span></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-54143124752221419792021-09-27T13:27:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:27:49.701+01:00<p> <span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Time </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=822249ca4a&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">ebbing</span></a><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> away?</span></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-58046213254070009122021-09-21T13:27:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:28:47.639+01:00<p> <span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">It’s </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=7b0a9c8dd5&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">thin</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-17773737147214955852021-09-14T13:29:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:30:18.963+01:00<p> <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=ce7086a9de&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Let</span></a><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> there be matter</span></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-79633145783377094292021-09-07T13:30:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:30:47.557+01:00<p> <a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=fc373bcca1&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Charming</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-68870443548127982962021-09-01T13:32:00.000+01:002021-10-21T13:32:51.965+01:00<p> <strong><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thought for the month</span></strong></p><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man
hardly anything.”<br />
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer (1749-1832).</span><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860854210766665404.post-70989100699332272732021-09-01T13:30:00.001+01:002021-10-21T13:31:13.545+01:00<p> <span style="color: #202020; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Excelling </span><a href="https://rta-instruments.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4407b1064488fe522a97c5527&id=e97071e9c0&e=00b22ccdd3" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">errors</span></a></p><strong>RTA instruments</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209899400435636082noreply@blogger.com0